Re: small shell (S.R.Bourne)

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Nikola Vladov wrote:

> This is a work in progress.  Soon I'll add a list with changes I done.

But you _do_ know that the heirloom-sh exists and does the very same
thing, right?

> Now shell work on the same way as 1978.

I’m not entirely sure if that’s good. Besides…
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 135840 Jun  1 12:43 /bin/mksh-static*

That’s a more modern shell (2009) linked against dietlibc.
With support for more secure shell programming (using [[),
and a lot more. And good for starting dæmonised scripts,
even (mksh -T- script or mksh -T- -c 'programme args', does
a daemon(3) equivalent).

bye,
//mirabilos
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